The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 148
May this gift of tusks which I here bestow enable me to attain Omniscience!”
Who acts: gift, me · What happens: enable, attain, gift · To what, where: me, Omniscience, tusks
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gift, me), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 enable | aux |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 gift | det |
| 3 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 enable | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tusks | case |
| 5 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gift | nmod |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 bestow | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 bestow | nsubj |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 bestow | advmod |
| 9 | bestow | bestow | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 enable | aux |
| 10 | enable | enable | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 enable | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 attain | mark |
| 13 | attain | attain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 enable | xcomp |
| 14 | Omniscience | omniscience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 attain | obj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 enable | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 enable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enable | may | this gift of tusks | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | attain | to-infinitive | me not said here | Omniscience | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent omniscience=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gift | tusks | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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